Manna "Nancy" Whipple

• BIRTH: 23 Sep 1775, Brattleboro, Vermont or Deerfield, Massachusetts
• DEATH: 1 Dec 1844
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|--Manna "Nancy" Whipple 
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Notes

• Manna "Nancy" Whipple was most likely born in Brattleboro, Vermont (although Vermont did not exist at the time as the provinces of New Hampshire and New York were in the middle of a land dispute over the region). The second most likely place of birth would be Deerfield, Massachusetts (a few miles down river from Brattleboro). She almost certainly was not born in Canada. Nor was she born in Boston, although she had a son the was living in Boston many years later.
• Manna's older sister (by 17 years), Lucy Whipple, married a man named Oliver Wells. Oliver was the son of Samuel Wells, who was probably the most powerful man in Brattleboro in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War in the 1770s. History notes that Samuel Wells remained loyal to the British throughout the war (and may have served as a spy), so life after the British defeat would have been difficult. But the extended Wells family remained in Brattleboro for many years after war. When the once wealthy and powerful Samuel Wells died in 1786, his estate owed more than its value. It took a few years to settle affairs, but in 1798 all of his children were offered land in Canada by the British Government to repay their father Samuel Wells for his support in the war years. They all moved to Canada, including Oliver Wells and Lucy (Whipple) Wells with a large family of young children.
• I suspect that Manna (who would have been 23 years old and the time) moved to Canada with her sister and several others connected to the large Wells family. The land grant of land by the British was in the township of Farnham, Missisquoi County, Quebec (not far from Montreal) and represented 15,600 acres of land. Mannaus mother-in-law was Abigail Nash. Several of the last name Nash were included in the pioneers of Farnham Township.
• In addition to Lucy and Manna, their brother Daniel and members of his family also moved away from Brattleboro at about this same time to near Buffalo, NY. For you see, the father of Lucy, Manna, and Daniel had been the High Sheriff Daniel Whipple in the area surrounding Brattleboro under commission of King George III. This Sheriff Daniel Whipple was closely tied to Samuel Wells in the early 1770s, although he was removed from his position as sheriff a few years before the war. So his family would probably not have been loyal to the British.

!SOURCE: L.D.S. Ancestral File (Internet). Gives birth "<Boston, , Massachusetts>" Gives name Manna Whipple.

!SOURCE: "Whipple Line" by Mrs. L.E. Freeman (Houston Public Library), cited 27 Mar 2024. Adds nickname Nancy.

!SOURCE: Email from Beverly H (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 14 Nov 2018. Gives name Nancy "Anna" Whipple. Cites the following:

• Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families, David W. Hoyt. 1871.
• Athol, Massachusetts, Past and Present, By Lilley Brewer Caswell, 1899
• A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts: The Times when the People ..., Volume 2. By George Sheldon 1896
• A Genealogical History of John Hoyt of Salisbury and David Hoyt of Deerfield, Davied W. Hoyt, 1857
• The History of the Pollard Family in American, Maurice Pollard, 1964

I have not been able to determine the ancestry of Nancy Whipple. I think perhaps Nancy may have also been a nickname for Anna or Hannah or some other name. I have seen reference to Nancy having been born in either Brattleboro or Lower Canada and married in Missiquoi Quebec Canada but I cannot verify that info in fact. One of the book sources below published in 1857 indicates that Ebenezer did spend the first three years of his marriage in Enosburg VT and then Farnham, Lower Canada during the War of 1812 and that two of their children died in Canada. Further, that they returned to Deerfield MA after the death of a daughter in 1815. I have corresponded with a descendant of Daniel Whipple and Mary Pollard and she indicates that they did have a daughter named Nancy and that at least one other of their daughters was born in Lower Canada. I think this may be the one you have as (M)anna Whipple b 1775.

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